API Test Automation Engineer — Hybrid in DC

eTelligent Group; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

eTelligent Group in the Washington, DC area seeks a QA automation engineer to build automated API tests and validate migrations for REST and SOAP services. The role focuses on achieving high accuracy, with first-pass validation supports at least 98% API pass rate during migrations.

You will integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, verify security handling, and maintain test data across APIs, ensuring traceability and quality before release.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years in software testing, QA automation, or API development.
• Experience testing REST APIs with a tool such as Postman, REST Assured, Karate, pytest or SoapUI.
• Basic understanding of HTTP, JSON, XML and API authentication.

Responsibilities

• Write automated API tests for REST and SOAP services, covering status codes, headers, payloads and authentication.
• Build functional equivalency tests that compare webMethods and Kong versions of an API and flag differences.
• Add tests to CI/CD pipelines so every API change and migration wave is checked before release.
• Test security behavior, including mTLS, OAuth2 and JWT handling, ACLs and rate limits.
• Run smoke tests after production changes and migration cutovers.
• Keep test data, test cases and results organized and traceable to each API.
• Report defects clearly and confirm fixes.

Skills

QA testing

API testing

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflow

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Postman

REST Assured

Karate

pytest

SoapUI

Job description

eTelligent Group in the Washington, DC area seeks a QA automation engineer to build automated API tests and validate migrations for REST and SOAP services. The role focuses on achieving high accuracy, with first-pass validation supports at least 98% API pass rate during migrations.

You will integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, verify security handling, and maintain test data across APIs, ensuring traceability and quality before release.